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Why did Old English lose both thorn and eth?
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Why do English transliterations of Arabic names have so many Qs in them?
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Is English tonal for some words, like “permit”?
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Is Sanskrit really the mother of all languages?
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In python, why does 0xbin() return False?
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The first Turing machine
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Is it unusual that English uses possessive for past tense?
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What does a solid, 1 mile diameter subterranean glass sphere look like?
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How to explain a character's ability to communicate while traveling across a land of extremely fractured dialects?
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Human vs apes: What advantages do humans have over apes?
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Why isn't “I've” a proper response?
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Signed and unsigned numbers
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What does machine code actually look like while being run?
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How did שְׁלֹמֹה (shlomo) become Solomon?
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Are language and thought the same?
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Is future tense in English really a myth?
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Why vowels sound different from each other
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Is Cola “probably the best-known” Latin word in the world? If not, which might it be?
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Why was apostrophe so vaguely used in Early Modern English?
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What do you call an IPA symbol that lacks a name (e.g. ɲ)?
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“Oh no!” in Latin
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Why do the Romance languages use definite articles, when Latin doesn't?
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What are some interesting features that are common cross-linguistically but don't exist in English?
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Why does Latin have five different noun declensions?
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Double exponentials vs single exponentials
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What does this text mean with capitalized letters?
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How did Ancient Greek 'πυρ' become English 'fire?'
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Encryption - How to claim authorship anonymously?
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Is the order of words purely based on convention?
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Shortest code to produce non-deterministic output
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